No one needs art but it's fun having it. That's common sense.
💎💎💎 A TEXAS GENIUS. A Yale exhibit curator (IQ 160, similar to Einstein and Hawking) breathed, "Genius" speaking to Carroll, added, "Your IQ is much higher than mine." 💎💎💎💎Carroll: "At a fork in the road I took the 41-year EXODUS 20 path, 'walking by faith not by sight.' (2 Cor 5:7)" (Bottom) MILES OF SMILES, summer 1994, is a signed and dated Carroll masterpiece; "The story of the guy getting miles of work bound drivers at a stop light to smile was the story behind this painting --- That every audience cheered. I grew up in a 3-story built by Griffith Jones of Philly in 1751. Our kitchen table dated to ca. 1550. I lived with Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, tall case clocks, 7 fireplaces and the original walk-in kitchen. I loved the handiwork and the smell and color of old mahogany and satinwood. Our front yard trees likely kept Washington shaded. In Spain, I lived in a 300 y/o adobe with 2,000 y/o Roman ruins just down the road.
◆ ◆ Carroll's Art ◆ ◆ "When you pay high for the priceless, you're getting it cheap." - 1st Baron Duveen, clients Morgan, Mellon, Rockefeller, ...
"Wanneer jy hoog betaal vir die kosbare, kry jy dit goedkoop."
- 1ste Baron Duveen
NOTE: This web site was designed and written by Carroll for his fans and critics.
All of the artwork, drawings, writings, etc. are samples of his versatile work.
PRICES: $8,800 per sq. in. (645.16 sq. mm).
"My teacher's patrons were kings and queens, biz moguls, jocks, actors, art museums."
Pick up your paintings at Jones Field Airport.
✅TEXT 214-799-3125 (EFT in advance)
- Skill, supply & demand cause higher prices -
As does provenance!
CF "Carroll" Burgoon, III
is an ARTIST discovered in another Spindletop,
in one of the greatest global hub cities in the world. Millionaires and billionaires, Texas tea,
movie stars, Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers,
RoughRiders, Dallas Stars, FC Dallas, and
home to National Medal of Honor Museum.
--- IMAGINE HOW YOU USE IT ---
IMAGE. GOODWILL. LOYALTY. GROWTH.
"Art is hyper scalable (Licensing, Gifts, ...):
Prints, posters, calendars, mugs, magnets,
t-shirts, sweatshirts, drawings, books,
tradeshow posters, promo posters,
company owner's note cards, ...
exhibits in strategic MSAs, plus
an artist appearance at a small
unveiling event of 10-25 folks.
It's like owning a leasehold
plus, the sky rights on
prime city property.
Great watercolor art is fun to own, and it is
a fantastic machine for making money."
⬇️ FOR THE BUSY BILLIONAIRE READER ⬇️
TO THE POINT
Carroll was coloring Christmas cards with a magnificent set of Crayola crayons as a 4½ y/o, after his older sister died tragically at age six and he couldn't find words to express grief, mourn, or put an end to survivor guilt.
He's crafted photographs since he was 6 y/o.
A picture swiftly closes the deal.
"I waded into life's deep end kinda early.
My life is a full frame sound bite."
1️⃣ Carroll was an Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP - The oldest in the Western Hemisphere) Junior Curator at 5½ y/o, where he later served as a freshwater environmental scientist and Principal Investigator in Limnology & Ecology.
My Sigma Xi (ΣΞ) underwritten Honor's Thesis got me graduated from a Minnesota college.
Carroll is a youthful innovator.
He had "clearance" at Savannah Nuclear Power research site (350 sq miles of closed airspace), and Georgia Power's Nuclear Plant Hatch. His boss co-authored the Environmental Protection Agency's first regs with Ruth Patrick, PhD and the president of the United States of America.
ANSP was the first job of debutantes of East Coast Old Money and prestigious schools.
Carroll grew up in a very small village 10 miles west of Valley Forge, where General George Washington had his Colonial Army hospital.
2️⃣ "I was raised in elite, highly competitive sports, esp. running and track bike racing.
I grew up around world champion horsemen and Olympic team members. My doctor dad was an avid tennis buff. I had tennis lessons since I was knee-high to a wood racket. Dad had been an A-student, a front page running back and a 53s 440 guy on a scoria track at Harrisburg Academy in the 1920s, before he went pre-med in college and enlisted in time to land on Dog Green, on D-Day. Then, he was deployed to the Philippines and Japan."
Carroll was born an INFP-A creative,
despite his MD parents wanting a scientist.
"My attire was jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers - not a suit and tie. My bed was mitered when I got up each morning long before the rooster crowed and got to work. Daily physical labor was my reality. Personal discipline matters as do respect, accountability, and ingenuity."
He dropped out of a southern UGA Master's (Aquatic Entomology), a northern UDEL PhD (Ecology), and two Texas MBA programs --- Where he had the top grades in grad Calculus, Accounting and Marketing; He is certified and proven in Communication, Leadership & Sales.
"Academic study just wasn't my bag -
I rode my Colnago and Condor, collected mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies, and aced
what I enjoyed: Embryology, Vertebrate Zoo, Atmospheric Physics, Physical Oceanography,
Systematic Ecology, Aquatic Entomology,
Insect Anatomy, Marketing, and Philately;
I have superb mentors, am eclectic,
and crush deadlines out of habit.
Taking art classes didn't interest me -
7th-Grade art was enough for me."
SEEDS OF A LIFESTYLE: SPORTS
"One day on a 220-mile ride with some daft, fast bikies, I fell off, when I woke up propped against a fence alongside the highway, the state police, an ambulance, and gawkers were milling about. The ER doctors said I'd separated my shoulder and needed surgery. I lost a lot of flesh. My fancy Italian road bike looked like an accordion. The next day I got a new road bike and decided to be a bike racer. I discovered the PA State track championships were coming up in 10 months - That became my recovery goal, to race kilo whatever that was. The ball-bustin 'Race of truth' sounded like fun. One month before States I realized I needed a track bike for kilo, so I got one of those, too." Turned out he was a speedy banked track bike racer (1975: As a Cat 4 cyclist qualified as PA State Alternate to US Nationals (RHR 28, VO2 Max 75) --- He loved banked track cycling and trained on SE PA roads - bolted onto his brakeless Condor with Cinelli M71s, a 94-inch gear, and silk road tires!
Life's not a sprint, so he became a distance runner, 1981-83, with a 4:08, 8:56, 31:57, and 1:17:15 on 70 sub-six miles/day each and every week - Again, without a coach. He used to run 8 miles at 4AM and 10 more after work --- To race a 5K. Carroll was a Little League RF, then P, an NRA sharpshooter, a JV wrestler 5 years, a Varsity tennis player; Squash Hall of Fame Haverford Coach Norm Bramall taught me to see one demonstration of a skill and repeat it.
Picking up pennies reminds Carroll that,
"The race is not to the swift but
to those who keep on running."
Life is full of long, steep hills ...
The caption on Carroll's favorite poster. (He ran sub-six up a hill like this on Rte. 401, slower near World's End State Park and a switchback trail in Yosemite NP. He scrambled over the Continental Divide in the Anaconda Pintlar Wilderness and jogged 120 miles on the AT, both with a 75lb backpack. As a sprint cyclist he did the really, really, really hard HIIT stuff, including, climbing a steep cobblestone street with a big, fixed gear in Athens, GA; Racing at East Point was a hoot.)
MAXIMIZING PROFITABILITY & REACH
"I pray you are prospering and in health even as your soul prospers." 3 Jn 2
3️⃣ Carroll connects dots others don't see.
"I'd had extensive 1-on-1 sales training and mentoring with the best in the U.S.A. My forte:
Birddogging, referral generation, client building, client retention, ... I learned from the best in many different fields, a jack of all trades.
Results (ROI and ROAS) matter to me."
He was head, chef, and bottle washer of a Dallas boutique marketing firm for 10 years.
A referral from America's top boardroom consultant said, "[She] sent me. That can only mean one thing. You must be [super, super] good." Other client examples: A referral from of top pro speaker's coach & consultant were a civilian USAF two-star in charge of 30,000 civilian scientists at Andrews AFB and a sales and marketing VP for an oil and gas giant, ...
The #2 American airline, as ranked by Visual Capitalist, wanted to produce 500,000 inflight cabin magazines in English and Spanish --- Carroll flew coach to Spain and Brazil on its jets and stayed with friends who seemed to own almost everything since time began. The flight crew told him where to go to have a wedding ring designed and made for his vivacious, busty companion who had both CPA and MBA by the time she graduated -- Whose mother had set up his study with the famous "Paco" Alcaraz.
"I was busy learning what I needed to learn.
Plus, I was always on time and on budget.
I like making deals."
SALES & MARKETING (PRE-TEXAS)
"My Philadelphia clients had all been Big Eight accountants, PNB, PNC, Mellon, Girard, bankers, law partners, business owners, MDs, and DOs. They all love The Best of the Best talent. I do. They all want to be loved and appreciated. I was recruited at the Athenaeum by a general agent who'd been the #1 salesman nationwide with the perennially #1-ranked World's Most Admired insurance company. Aaron taught me to sell on a napkin, and have it stick. I won national recognition for volume and client retention ---
My running buddy had the President of the United States and a famous Hollywood CEO
as two of his many distinguished clients.
Like his dad, he is a legend in the industry."
THE BEST FIND ME (PUBLIC SPEAKING)
"I threw away a note from the U.S. President, George H. W. Bush, applauding my community service in north Texas in disbelief --- I was in Toastmasters' leadership and honored as Rookie of the Year out of 1,200+ in the world's #1-ranked district (4,200 members). Then, I was elected Northern Division Lt. Governor overseeing training and development of about 600 members in 30 clubs, then, appointed District Treasurer. PROBLEM SOLVING.
I joined for effectiveness of public speaking
and leadership, that's all. I gave 225 public talks and workshops in my first six months and was on radio, TV, cable, and corporations e.g., Texas Instruments, State Farm Regional, Federal Credit Union, etc. After Spain I gave 525+ keynote art talks in Barnes & Noble Bookstores, K-5, middle schools, high schools, colleges, AAUW-SMU, University of Chicago Alumni, ... Rotary, Kiwanis, seniors, Dallas Police, radio, 50+ newspapers, corporations, ... by 9 mos. I'd torn up my vocal cords so, I got back to doing what I do, confidently getting people to do better."
I chose the path less traveled
"Then, at 4AM one morning, I stood alone in my marketing office and spoke into the empty room, 'Please reveal my gifts to me and help me use them.' I didn't know anyone was listening. Six months later I was painting on the far side of 'The Pond' in Spain. I sold my marketing business overnight when I returned stateside."
4️⃣ 5️⃣ 6️⃣ 7️⃣ Watercolor is like being fluent in Latin and a 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th language -
It teaches you to think out-of-the-box and probably wards off dementia while improving your brain's cognitive function as does multilingualism. Few collectors ever master
the finicky language of curating art on paper,
let alone being knowledgeable of watercolor:
John Singer Sargent, J. M. W. Turner, Paul Klee, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georgia O'Keeffe, John James Audubon, Mary Cassatt, and Leonardo da Vinci.
"I hid in historic 'Unique by Nature,' McKinney, TX and avoided its thriving arts community, where I made 12 of watercolors --- 16 others were on display at Christ Fellowship for 2 yrs.
(Four were portraits of McKinney residents modeling for Book of Luke sermons. The megachurch's senior pastor had The Dallas Morning News come interview me. Twelve were featured in a 400,000-member Chicago nonprofit's custom 'loyalty' calendar with 75,000 selectively mailed gratis worldwide.)
A painting was at Plano City Hall, put there by the Fire Chief, Bill Peterson after 9/11.
Even Ross Perot, Sr. phoned me one morning to coach and assist me, ..."
Dr. Lazar wrote, "SIMPLY INSPIRATIONAL"
during a lunch in his office, 1996(?), after Carroll attended Four-star Westmoreland's black tie (Distinguished Eagle Scout, the USMA Pershing Sword, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) with 40 Medal of Honors in the First-Class Dining Room on RMS Queen Mary. The Artist Carroll sat with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor. Carroll befriended two Knight Commanders of the Knights of Malta who were there; Both reported directly to the Pope in Rome. Kitsy had her New York lawyer son, Kip, take a photo of her with Carroll and a Vietnamese general. "An oil company president, took me after Westmoreland's Aide de Camp, Col. Roger Donlon, MOH, made arrangements."
Martin Lazar is world dean of brain surgeons.
"I was surprised by a gracious letter from
His Majesty Juan Carlos I The King of Spain -
I kept it!"
CONFESSIONS (Favorites):
My favorite color is Ferrari RED symbolizing speed, passion, and well, game-changing, Masterful technique. Dopotutto (After all), it has a high-pitched Vvvrrrrrooooooom!"
Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who (Youtube, 2010, Vincent van Gogh Visits the Musée d'Orsay with Doctor Who - Google Search). Vincent van Gogh's estimated IQ 165. Could AI have made van Goghs, Picassos (IQ 175), Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa, Salvator Mundi, or The Last Supper, ...?
8️⃣ 9️⃣ 🔟 ...
"It was a Brazilian heiress, granddaughter of the co-founder of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo who arranged my study with D. Fco. Alcaraz.
Later, I learned Alcaraz was world famous."
"One of my mentors made the largest player deal the NFL had ever seen - #56 Lawrence Taylor was worth every single penny of it.
Joe was absolutely the #1 dealmaker,
a fantastic artist selling greatness!"
"I was surprised at 6AM on Christmas morning to get a phone call from a Tour Champion's happy wife saying at that very moment her husband home from the PGA Tour, was positioning their furniture around her surprise gift, a bespoke painting I made of his dog at his signature hole at The Colonial CC."
GENEROUS MEN & WOMEN AIDED ME.
"Thank You!" "شكرًا لك!" "Merci!" "Danke schön!" “謝謝你！” "Cảm ơn!"
"감사합니다!" "¡Gracias!" "Obrigado!"
En homenaje a Sr. Alcaraz (An orphan): 30 originals to The Adoption Exchange-NM. The artist Carroll's interview by CBS Evening News ran two weeks with the highest response in the Adoption's history. United Artist Theaters ran the images on the big screen before all movies in CO and NM for 30 days. "I seem to remember Alcaraz restored artifacts in Notre Dame and other famous Crusade Era cathedrals in France and Germany, as well as ancient cave paintings in Southern France and a precious Rembrandt."
Mrs. Kathy Dugas-Brown, 7th-Grade Art, General Wayne JHS, GVSD.
"A delightfully gifted JHS teacher, she taught me perspective, to draw hands,
fingers, and to decorate interiors with pleasing sophistication. She was beautiful.
She showed me Albrecht Dürer's Young Hare, Praying Hands, and Large Piece of Turf.
She set the bar very high for me --- Outstanding! She pushed me to do better.
Women always look at my fingers and wonder. I have good hands and soft eyes.
Hall of Fame BGen USMC (Ret.), Woodrow M. Kessler, Bronze Star with a "V" attachment, former POW, my 11th-Grade Art Appreciation teacher, also at GVSD, first urged me to go to Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia after high school. Art was too expressive. I became a freshwater scientist at ANSP in Philly, because it was quietly safer.
"Westy"
🎖️ Carroll supped with 40 Medal of Honors at Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary. An oil company president got Carroll there aided by Sir Edward Artis, Knight Commander of the Knights of Malta, who invited Carroll to join Sir Ed's inner circle of former presidents of U.S.A., Europe, and South America --- Kitsy's son, a big shot NYC lawyer, shot a picture of his mom with Carroll on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. To continue, at General Westmoreland's black-tie Carroll was seated with SPC4 John Baca, Medal of Honor.
Listen to this 1st Cavalry Division interview:
MOH Baca | 1st Cavalry Division Association (1cda.org)
Col Roger Donlon, GEN Westmoreland's ADC, the first Medal of Honor
in the Vietnam War, sent Carroll the Four-star general's invitation
and arranged his accommodation for the black-tie evening.
American Valor . Stories of Valor . Roger Donlon | PBS
That evening,
a Knight Commander, Knights of Malta offered Carroll membership
in his exclusive priori with Pres. Reagan, Pres. Carter, ...
and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
PHILANTHROPY
★ ★ ★ Carroll donated 30,000 of his prints, books, and 65-70 originals ★ ★ ★
"I got a few 'Thank you' letters from Executive Directors and C-level officers but otherwise I have no record of who received my gifts.
I wanted to help people by supporting gallant, intrepid citizens.
Theirs are incredible stories of selfless valor that benefitted us
AND our future generations.
In the past, two city councilmen had valued my gifts at $21 million
(Equal to about $80 million in 2025 dollars).
A dismayed artworld insider told me that I'd seriously underpriced my paintings, 15 to 20 years ago, as he was selling his guy's tiniest paintings for $500k each and put more than a $100 million/year into the artist's pocket. He knows mine are of higher quality ($8,800 per sq. in. is fair). His magnanimous friend, who owns
a Big Three Los Angeles moviemaker, wanted to make a movie about me.
In addition to my genius teacher, Alcaraz, and the Colonial Brazilian heiress Helena,
ONLY ONE American, a Yale MFA in Art History, ever watched me paint."
DALLAS HAS BEEN GREAT
"Most of my paintings were made while listening to WRR 101.1 FM. So, I hand delivered a copy of Ode to Joy to Nancy Brunson, who is an avid diarist/journalist. My mentor, Major General Hugh G. Robinson PE, USA (Ret.), was delighted. Hugh worked to get me on Good Morning Texas with his wife, and on WFAA and KHOU. Hugh was on the BELO Corp Board of Trustees. We were introduced by Mr. Perot's neighbor and philanthropy consultant one day after I keynoted the American Association of University Women at SMU.
The founder of La Madeleine graciously suggested ideas to improve to my book, Ode to Joy. Some NFL Hall of Famers wrote fantastic testimonials for my first book.
Thank you, #80 Tony Hill, Dallas Cowboys.
Dr. Ron Anderson, MD, Parkland CEO, called me to his office to share a U.S.-sized idea.
Dallas Morning News did 9 or 10 stories.
Even People Newspapers ran a story!
The Executive Director of PCPC Women's Ministry and Dallas Theological Seminary
got in the fun. On and on and on it goes ...
DFW ▲9.25% is the 4th largest MSA in the U.S.A. (Losing: ⮮ NYC-NJ, ⮮ LA-Long Beach-Anaheim, and ⮮ Chicago IL-IN. People are leaving. You gotta be asking, 'Why?')"
"The man on top of the mountain
didn't fall there [by himself]."
-Vince Lombardi
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CONNECTED TO THE DISTANT PAST
BURGOON FAMILY HISTORY
The Burgoons are the Burguns from Burgundy, France, and were until our cordwainer patriarch, Jean Jacques Burgun, anglicized our family name (in 1740) while aboard the Palatinate tall ship Lydia sailing to Baltimore, MD in the Colonies. (P. 91, Ellis Island, NY Harbor records.) Burgoon's were of the pugilistic Burgundiōnes who kicked butt all over Europe starting in ca. 249 AD after they returned to the mainland from Burgundarholmr Island, Denmark. The Kingdom of the Burgundians became a renown part of France --- Burgundy, France. Carroll's great, great, ... uncle signed with Gen. George Washington's Continental Army that tented on Rebel Hill (Where Carroll lived), and Washington's blood-stained Army, marched past The Overhanging Rock at Gulph Mills for a frigid winter at Valley Forge. Carroll was named after Freemason Charles Carroll of Carrollton. CCC was JJ Burgoon's next door neighbor in a German community in Carroll County, Maryland.
JJ was a French shoe dog and an artist!
His mom hailed from an immigrant Irish potato farmer in Rawdon,
north of Montreal, Canada. She was a first generation American and the youngest daughter of Dr. Thomas B. Smiley, MD in Mount Vernon, Davison County, South Dakota.
Dr. Smiley was a small-town family doctor. His brother was a famous Quebec doctor.
Carroll's great, great, great, ... paternal uncle rode into Fort Worth in 1850;
His son moved to Denton in the same year.
Carroll flew into DFW from PHL in June 1984, and now, ...
MAKE ART GREAT AGAIN!
Photo taken by a construction mogul during a drizzle on a private tour on his ranch.
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
- Picasso
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